A colleague was kind enough to send me the link to a blog web site which itself has terrific links for people interested in business. In addition to the blogs I post on, such as… Read more »
Archives for October 2009
Does business ignore Business Schools?
In his blog The Art of Management, Dr. David M. Atkinson, discusses the issues, his thoughts, and refers to Rita McGrath’s January 14th letter “The Upside to Business Schools,” written in response to a column… Read more »
“Learning From Corporate Flops”—Rita McGrath featured in Wall Street Journal
The Business Insight section of the Wall Street Journal features an interview of Rita McGrath by MIT Sloan Management Review’s editor Martha E. Mangelsdorf on Monday, October 26th. Entitled Learning from Corporate Flops the WSJ… Read more »
“Learning From Corporate Flops”—Rita McGrath featured in Wall Street Journal
The Business Insight section of the Wall Street Journal features an interview of Rita McGrath by MIT Sloan Management Review’s editor Martha E. Mangelsdorf on Monday, October 26th. Entitled Learning from Corporate Flops the WSJ… Read more »
How decisions made under uncertainty can cast a long shadow - Internet Pricing
The reality of having to make decisions under uncertainty is that quite often, you'll get things wrong. Unfortunately, sometimes those wrong things have very long and path-dependent consequences. I'm thinking in particular of two decisions… Read more »
How decisions made under uncertainty can cast a long shadow – Internet Pricing
The reality of having to make decisions under uncertainty is that quite often, you'll get things wrong. Unfortunately, sometimes those wrong things have very long and path-dependent consequences. I'm thinking in particular of two decisions… Read more »
Customer experience innovation - description of a talk that I sometimes give
Sad, but true: Most companies have potentially disastrous blind spots with regard to truly understanding their customers' experiences with their products and services. This session introduces a simple, intuitive tool – the customer consumption chain… Read more »
Customer experience innovation – description of a talk that I sometimes give
Sad, but true: Most companies have potentially disastrous blind spots with regard to truly understanding their customers' experiences with their products and services. This session introduces a simple, intuitive tool – the customer consumption chain… Read more »
Why smart projects so often go wrong - SAP and Business ByDesign
In class, I’ve been using German software giant SAP’s foray into Software as a Service as a ‘living case’ example of a company venturing into highly unknown territory. Without knowing more than what is available… Read more »
Why smart projects so often go wrong – SAP and Business ByDesign
In class, I’ve been using German software giant SAP’s foray into Software as a Service as a ‘living case’ example of a company venturing into highly unknown territory. Without knowing more than what is available… Read more »
Create a Special Unit to Drive Growth
Rita McGrath’s blog at HarvardBusiness.org has been reprinted by Business Week. As the economy shows some signs of shrugging off its doldrums, growth is back on the agenda. After cutting costs for a year or… Read more »
NYT Small Business quotes Rita McGrath re health care reform bill
“Consultant Rita McGrath, discussing a theoretical mandate with a threshold of 25 employees, imagines ‘thousands of businesses employing exactly 24.5 people, all interconnectedly doing business with one another rather than falling foul of the over-25… Read more »